Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities, this title charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race from the 19th century to the present day.

'Mixed Race' Studies: A Reader is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.

Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction Global Masala: A Thematic and Comparative Overview Part 1: Tracing the Origins: Miscegenation and Pathologization Editor's Introduction to Part 1 1. History of Jamaica (1774) Edward Long 2. The Races of Men (1850) Robert Knox 3. The Inequality of Human Races (1853-55), translated by Collins (1915) Joseph Gobineau 4. Types of Mankind (1854) Josiah Nott and George Giddon 5. The Origin of the Species: The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859) Charles Darwin 6. Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo (1864) Pierre Broca 7. Changes in the Bodily Form of Descedants of Immigrants (1912) Frantz Boas 8. The American Negro: A study in racial crossing (1928) Melville Herskovits 9. The Marginal Man (1932) Everett Stonequist 10. Crossing the Boundary: The marginal man (1998) Frank Furedi 11. The Half Caste (1937) Cedric Dover 12. The Half-Caste Pathology (1986) Paul Rich 13. Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing (1973) William Provine 14. Not In Our Genes (1984) Stephen Rose et al. 15. American Anthropological Association Statement on 'Race' (1998) 16. The Monster Inside: 19th century racial constructs in the 24th century mythos of Star Trek (1997) Denise Hurd Part 2: Mapping Contemporary Discourses
'Mixed Race' and Celebration Editor's Introduction to Part 2 17. La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a new consciousness (1987) Gloria Anzaldua 18. The Illogic of American Racial Categories (1992) Paul Spickard 19. Within Between and Beyond Race (1992) Maria Root 20. Life After Race (1995) Naomi Zack 21. Critical 'Mixed Race'? (1995) Lewis Gordon 22. Excerpt from 'As We Are Now: Mixblood essays on race and identity' (1998) William Penn (ed) 23. Into the Mix (1994) Carol Camper 24. Parents and Children (1981) Sue Benson 25. Excerpt from 'Mixed Race Children' (1987) Anne Wilson 26. The Racial Identities of Young People of Mixed Parentage (1993/2001) Anne Phoenix and Barbara Tizard 27. Identity (2001) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 28. Let the Blackness and Whiteness Wash Through: Competing discourses on bi-racialization and the compulsion of genealogical erasures (1999) Jayne O Ifekwunigwe Part 3: Defining the Debates: Multiraciality and Critique Editor's Introduction to Part 3 29. The Mulatto Millennium (1998) Danzy Senna 30. The Multiracial Experience: Racial borders Maria Root 31. Government Classification of Multiracial/Multiethnic People (1996) Carlos Fernandez 32. Excerpt from Chapter 3 on 'Reporting More Than One Race' and Omb Directive No.15 33. Is Biracial Enough? Or What's This About a Multiracial Category on the Census? (1994) Lisa Jones 34. Rainbow People of God (1997) Jon Michael Spencer 35. Excerpt from 'Spuri